Monthly Archives: September 2019

Tasmanian State Secretary Wayne Williams is leading the DLP’s call for a major increase in Federal funding of infrastructure in Tasmania. Projects as varied as the acquisition of a floating dock to repair and maintain ships, to the construction of…

Audrey Drechsler was awarded Queen’s birthday honours this year, receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services to agriculture and the community. Audrey Drechsler OAM, 86 years old from Sedgwick, Victoria, has been a foundation member…

On International Women’s Day this year, eleven women marched in Melbourne for the Nordic Model of legislation to end human trafficking. Next year, we would like to see the size of the group doubled or even tripled and include men…

Kathryn Breakwell, Victorian DLP Senate candidate in the 2018 federal election, has been examining the increasing and concerning trend towards the “casualisation” of the Australian workforce. As many of you know, Kathryn is a Tram Driver and an active member…

The following is a Letter to the Editor of The West Australian, submitted by DLP member Rosemary Lorrimar 2 September 2019 Dear Sir, I am a Registered Nurse with close to 60 years in the nursing industry and am…